Fruit-jar-top wrench.



No. 694,743.Y Patented Mar. 4, |902.

E. HIMMELMAN.

FRUIT JAB TOP WRENCH.

(Application ma .my s, 1901.)

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ERNEST IIIIVIli/IELIYIAN, OF LEROY, NEW YORK.

FRUIT-JAPi-TOP WRENCH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 694,748, dated March 4,1902.

Application filed July 5, 1901. Serial No. 67,193. (Nomodel.)

To cir/ZZ whom, it naar] concern,.-

Be it known that I, ERNEST HIMMELMAN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Leroy, in the county of Genesee and State ot' New York, haveinvented a new and useful Fruit-Jar-Top Wrench, of which the followingis a specification.

My invention relates io improvements in f ruit-jar-top wrenches, and hasfor its object to provide a device whereby the tops of jars vcan beeasily and readily removed or secured in place.

My invention consists in the construction, combination, and arrangementot parts hereinafter described and claimed.

Referring to the drawings, Figure l is a bottom plan View ot' myinvention, and Fig. 2 a side elevation.

In the drawings, in which like numerals of reference denote like partsthroughout the several views, l and 2 represent handles pivoted togetherat 3 and provided with jawsv 4 and 5. Each jaw is provided with adepending bracket 6, having a socket 7, and each arm is provided with abracket S, having a socket 9, the brackets on the jaws extending belowthe brackets on the arms, so as tobring the sockets in different planes.Y

l and 1l are spring clampingrings, the ring l0 terminating in arms 12,which are secured in the sockets 9, and the ring 1l terminating in arms13, which are secured in the sockets 7 ,and as the sockets in thebrackets on the jaws are below the plane of those in the brackets on thearms the ring l0 is consequently held in a plane higher than that of thering 11. These clamping-'rings are capable of being removed from theirsockets and others inserted in case it is found that they arenot of theproper circumference for the purpose required, and the ring l0 ispreferably made slightly smaller than the ring 11 for the purpose ofaccommodating the wrench to jar-tops which taper. The clamping-rings arecovered by rubber tubing 14:.

When itis desired to remove the top of a jar, the handles of the wrenchare forced apart, which also opens the jaws, and as the ends of one ot'the clamping-rings are attached to the handles and the ends of the otherclampingring to the jaws theV clampingrings are expanded and practicallycome into alinement. The clamping-rings are then passed over the top ofthe jar and the handles forced together, which also closes the jars andthe clampingrings are contracted, thereby clamping the jar-top, and itis then only necessary to turn the wrench in the proper direction toremove the jar-top. It it is desired to force the jartop on, the wrenchis turned in the opposite direction to that required to remove thejartop.

Although I have described the jar-top wrench as applicable for use withfruit-jars, it may be used equally as well with cans and other vessels,and although I have herein set forth a construction, combination, andarrangement Whereby the objects of my invention maybe accomplished itcomes Within the spirit of my invention to depart somewhat therefrom.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is- 1.` A jar-topwrench comprising pivoted handles havingV jaws and expansible clampingmembers which whenl expanded open in opposite directions, substantiallyas described. i

2. A jar-top wrench comprising lpivoted handles having jaws andexpansibl'e clamping members which when expanded open in oppositedirections, one of said members carried by the handles and the other bythe jaws, substantially as described.

3. A jar-top wrench comprising pivoted handles having depending bracketscarrying an expansible clamping member, and jaws having dependingbrackets carrying an ex I pansible'ciamping member, the brackets on thejaws extending below the brackets on the handles for the purpose oflocating the ciamping members in different planes, substantially asdescribed.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two snbscribin g witnesses.

ERNESTy HIMMELMAN.

` Witnesses r CHARLES F. KELLoee, HARRY H. FALKNER.

